Chapter 93
Chapter 92: The true daughter of cannon fodder (6)
Summer in the capital, the heat is still somewhat obvious. Walking on the street, people can’t feel the wind blowing at all. Under the scorching sun, the pedestrians coming and going on the road are all panting like cows and sweating like embarrassed under the rain. Even the spring cotton and spring sandalwood walking on both sides of her, the temples and the tip of the nose were stained with sweat.
In such an environment, wearing white clothes, and tying up hair with only a white ribbon, the long and narrow phoenix eyes that are as dark as ink are deeper like a secluded well, making it impossible to see the bottom at a glance, and the bridge of the nose is tall. With thin lips, a smile like nothing is hanging on the corners of the mouth, one hand is hooked on the wine jar, but there is a Helan Ruo with a fine jade flute stuck in the waist, not to mention sweat stains, from head to toe. A little sweat is invisible. The whole person is as finely carved from the same flawless jade, so incompatible with the noisy streets, the rushing pedestrians, including the scorching sun above everyone’s heads.
It wasn’t until two men who looked like roe-headed mice and sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks passed by him one after another, that they finally broke the scene like ink painting.
Tang Ning walked with small steps while watching the man in front who seemed to be anxious to do something. He walked extremely fast, and he didn’t pay attention, and a cyan purse slipped from his waist and walked away. The gray-clothed man not far behind him suddenly showed an expression of surprise and inexplicable surprise. After running two steps, he hurriedly picked up the money bag on the ground, opened the money bag subconsciously, and poured two large pieces from it. The gold ingot came out.
As soon as he saw the golden color, the man’s eyes straightened, and he hurriedly put the gold back into the purse.
The inexplicable expression of ecstasy on his face did not have time to recede in the future. As soon as the man turned around, he saw Helan Ruo who was leaning against one of the walls and looking at his money-picking behavior from beginning to end.
As soon as he saw him, the man in grey clothes who had picked up the money was bluffed, and then a tangled expression appeared on his face. He didn’t know how long he had been in the same place before he walked step by step. In front of Helan Ruo.
“My son, did you just… just saw… you saw me… oh, forget it, today, even if I do a good deed every day, I have a share, and there are just two pieces of gold in the purse. , How about it. Of course, if you divide the gold, you have to rot in your stomach!”
The man said seriously.
Helan Ruo raised his eyes with interest when he heard the other party saying so, “Oh?”
Seeing Helan Ruo’s interest, the gray-clothed man suddenly flashed a trace of uncontrollable excitement and greed deep in his eyes, and his eyes turned unconsciously on the jade flute on Helan Ruo’s waist.
“certainly!”
Unexpectedly, the hot weather would make him and the old five run into such a big fish and sent it out!
Thinking like this in his heart, the man’s face was full of seriousness.
Who would have thought that at this moment, the man who had lost his money bag came back in a hurry. Not only that, he saw the man in gray and Helan Ruo standing on the side of the road, and asked whether they had picked up one. Wallet, almost as soon as he heard the question of the man who lost the money bag, a guilty conscience appeared on the face of the man in gray.
I even found out the moneybag man directly.
This time it was all right, he began to insist that Helan Ruo and the man in grey clothes must have picked up his purse, and said that they would take them to see the official now, and there was a noisy moment there.
Even the attention of Chun Mian and Chun Tan who was holding her “belly ache” was attracted, and the three of them slowed down subconsciously.
At this time, the plot over there has already progressed to the point that the man in gray stalked his neck and said as he left, and secretly stuffed the money bag in Helan Ruo’s hand with the person on his back, and at the same time approached him and lowered his voice, righteously. The Yamen is not a good place to enter. I know people in the Yamen, and now I put the purse with you. As long as the purse cannot be found, no one knows that the two of us picked up the gold.
But it’s not that my brother doesn’t believe you. If you run away with these two ingots of gold, where can I find you? You have to give me some collateral. I just followed that brother to the yamen with confidence just now.
The man in grey was really sincere and sincere.
They had cooperated many times when they wanted to do such a trick. No, if the greed in his eyes hadn’t betrayed him at this time, even Tangning would not have seen anything wrong with him.
At the other end, when He Lan Ruo heard the man in gray say so, he raised his eyebrows lightly, “That’s it? But today I went out too eagerly, and I didn’t bring any silver taels for the time… Bring my jade flute to you. Brother is so righteous, you shouldn’t be left behind. This jade flute is the treasure of my family, and it should be worth an ingot of gold!”
With a smile, Helan Ruo pulled out his jade flute from his waist, and then handed it to the man in gray.
As soon as he saw the jade flute, even the man in gray was frightened by Helan Ruo’s masterpiece. It was the fine-quality flute that made him and his accomplices notice the Helan Ruo on the side of the road and thought he It must be a big fish, thinking about getting a vote from him.
Unexpectedly, this person should be so stupid and so generous. What day is it that they should meet such a prodigal prodigal. If they send it out, they are really going to send it out. This flute is resold and sold. He and I’m afraid the fifth child will be happy and happy in Chunhonglou for a while.
When I thought of this, looking at the jade flute in Helan Ruo’s hand, the gray-clothed man’s breath became heavy.
“This… okay! Brother is righteous, but the little one…”
The gray-clothed man forcibly held his expression, and after arching his hand at Helan Ruo, he stretched his hand toward the jade flute.
But before his trembling fingers touched the jade flute in Helan Ruo’s hand, a small white hand suddenly stretched out from the side, and he immediately took the jade flute from Helan Ruo’s hand.
“Who?”
As soon as the jade flute that I was thinking about disappeared, the man in gray immediately looked aside fiercely, and even He Lan Ruo was attracted and looked over.
Then, the two saw a slender woman with a white drapery hat playing with the jade flute in her hand, and her voice was as pleasing as a deep stream of clear spring. This friend, you really have a good calculation! What’s more, I don’t know if there is gold in that purse?”
As soon as he heard these words, a panic flashed in the eyes of the man in gray, but he still steadied himself in an experienced manner, “How do you say this little lady? This is a matter between me and this young man, and it’s up to you.” What’s the matter? If you dare to be nosy…”
He stared fiercely at the girl in front of him, intending to scare her away.
After all, just listening to the voice knows that this girl is not very old. She wears such a drapery when she goes out. She should have been raised in a deep boudoir. Such a girl is timid, just a little scared…
Before he finished thinking about it, he watched the girl in front of him without hesitation grabbing the tightly clenched cyan purse, and the man in gray hadn’t even reacted to it. She already took the purse completely. Turning it upside down, two rough stones fell from the purse to the ground, making two muffled noises.
Yes, the gold in the purse had been exchanged by these two swindlers a long time ago, just to lie to other people’s so-called collateral.
“Losing and changing, even the people in Xihe County have long stopped playing this kind of trick. I didn’t expect that at the feet of an emperor like Beijing, I would still encounter you two swindlers!”
While talking, Tangning threw the money bag in his hand directly to the ground.
“Niang Xipi! You wait for me!”
This liar, who was exposed to the scam by Tangning with lightning speed, watched the valuable jade flute slip away from him, even if he hates and angers, the experience of walking the rivers and lakes for many years is still reminding He is the capital city. As long as there is a slight movement, the soldiers in the city will be chased by the soldiers. They and the old five and two came to the capital only temporarily. They saw a second fool and cheated some silver flowers by the way, but didn’t want to go to jail.
So after only these words were left, the man ran away for the first time, and the man who had cooperated with him before found out that the situation was not good, he was gone.
Seeing the two escaped, Tangning sighed slightly, and then handed the jade flute in front of the white-robed Helan Ruo, “This son, even if he is at the feet of the emperor, he still has to pay attention to it, otherwise next time. But there is no such good luck. I heard you say that this flute is still your family treasure, so you should be more careful and cherish it, right?”
Hearing Tangning’s admonishing voice, Helan Ruo, whose face was blurred through the white gauze of the drapery, subconsciously raised his eyebrows.
“you do not know me?”
When the two swindlers said the first sentence to him, he already knew that they were definitely not from the capital, people in the capital, he couldn’t think of anyone who didn’t know him, including standing in front of him now and seeing how she was wearing Dress up, maybe it’s a daughter of some kind.
Upon hearing He Lan Ruo’s inquiry, Tangning was stunned, and then tentatively asked, “Should I know you?”
As soon as her voice fell, He Lan Ruo’s eyes flashed with interest.
“No, it’s okay if you don’t know it? I haven’t thanked this girl for her kind help, Helan thanked it here.”
The corner of He Lan Ruo’s mouth smiled and arched his hands at Tang Ning lightly.
Hearing the words Helan, Tangning hadn’t reacted yet, but Chun Tan who was standing on her right immediately raised his eyes in surprise.
Helan, is it the little father-in-law that she heard about?
However, the fluctuation of Chun Tan’s eyes did not last for a while. As for Chun Mian, she did not realize how the two words He Lan were related to the gossip she had heard, so she still looked blank.
“It’s okay, it would be nice to be able to help you.”
Tangning’s voice came from behind the curtain with a smile, and then she put the jade flute in her hand into Helan Ruo’s hand, turned her head and took the two little girls and continued walking forward.
At this moment, a breeze suddenly blew from nowhere, and just lifted the white gauze of Tangning’s hat, revealing her rosy lips and small white chin.
Seeing this colored Helan Ruo, he raised the jade flute in his right hand, and beat it in the heart of his left hand.
After a long distance, he could still hear the conversation of the three masters and servants in front of Feng’er.
“Huh? Girl, don’t your stomach hurt anymore?”
“Ah, yes, it doesn’t seem to hurt anymore.”
“Since it doesn’t hurt anymore, let’s go back to Tinglilou, okay? It should be too late.”
“Oh, oh, it’s okay if you don’t say Listening to the Lilou Building, when I say that I feel a little pain…”
“Then…Then we should go back to the mansion and ask the doctor to show it to you?”
“Don’t! No, I mean, Chunmian, don’t you always say that there is a Mei Cai shortbread on Chunxiang Street that tastes particularly good? Otherwise, shall we go there? I think if I can eat something now What I eat, I should be much better!”
Tangning quickly suggested that.
“Huh? Is that so?”
Chunmian scratched her head and couldn’t understand why she had a stomachache to eat instead of seeing the doctor. She subconsciously raised her head to look at Chun Tan on the other side, but saw her sister Chun Tan looking at Tang Ning who was holding her belly. After a thoughtful light flashed in his eyes, he also agreed with Tangning’s suggestion.
Seeing that Chun Tan and Tang Ning both said they were going to eat Mei Cai shortbread, thinking about the taste of the Han Chun Mian for a long time, they immediately threw all the doubts that they couldn’t figure behind, and the saliva began to secrete uncontrollably.
So the three masters and servants who reached a friendly consensus walked happily in the direction of Chunxiang Street.
Hou Helan Ruo almost heard the conversation of the three from the beginning, but thought these three little girls looked very interesting.
He lowered his head and glanced at the wine jar in his hand. He remembered the dishes served in the Taibai restaurant on Chunxiang Street. The taste was superb, perhaps…
Helan Ruo’s current favorability rating: 8.
But Tangning and Helan Ruo temporarily laid a foundation of friendship, while Wei Jing and Qin Qianqian on the other side were angry but not as harmonious as the two expected.
Well, the main fuse was the note that Tangning stuffed into Wei Jing’s hand.
Yes, Tangning’s angle was really just right, so that Qin Qianqian, who was chasing the entrance of Tinglilou, watched her tuck the slip of paper.
In addition, after Wei Jing left Tangning, the soft smile raised at the corners of her mouth was more like a sharp thorn deep into her heart, swelling and painful to Qin Qianqianlian. It doesn’t know if it is pulled out, but it can only be pierced deeper and deeper, deeper and deeper.
Qin Qianqian, who was very uncomfortable, even sat with Wei Jing in the private room on the second floor, but didn’t want to pay attention to him. No matter what Wei Jing said to her, it wasn’t um, um, nodding or something like a perfunctory answer, just as if he listened completely. As if not seeing, his eyes were fixed on the stage downstairs.
This made Wei Jing even trying to find an appropriate opportunity to explain to her clearly what was in her heart, but she couldn’t find it, and her heart became depressed and uncomfortable.
Obviously, he had given up on his own initiative, and the person who voluntarily gave up the marriage contract was Qianqian, right? Why does she not only have no apologies for him now, but even so… so cold?
Is there really no longer him in her heart?
After thinking about this, for a while, Wei Jing lost his thoughts about looking for words, and he also began to stare at the stage on the first floor.
The private room suddenly became quiet.
Qin Qianqian here, when Wei Jing spoke before, she didn’t want to pay attention to him because she felt uncomfortable, but now, Wei Jing doesn’t talk to her anymore. No matter what happened to them since childhood, the conflict between the two will always be Wei Jing coax. Her Qin Qianqian felt even more sad.
Because of the lack of information, Qin Qianqian didn’t know that Wei Jing had overheard the matter she took the initiative to let out of the marriage contract, and she didn’t know that he and Tangning had such an agreement in private.
I couldn’t remember how Wei Jing had treated her well before, but I could only recall the smile that raised the corner of his mouth just now when he received a note from Tangning.
The more I thought about it, the more aggrieved, and the more I thought about it, the more sad Qin Qianqian looked at the stage below, listening to the babbling and singing, one could not hold back, and the eye sockets suddenly became red. After a period of soreness, tears had already begun. Her eyes began to accumulate.
At the moment when her tears were about to fall, she suddenly stood up and walked out without even thinking about it.
Qin Qianqian, who was unable to shed tears in front of Wei Jing to show his weakness since she was a child, completely ignored Wei Jing’s call behind her. He walked faster and faster, and the tears flowed unscrupulously. Her eyes flowed down.
And when Qin Qianqian was irritated and cried silently, Tangning on this side finally brought Chun Tan and Chun Mian to the stall with the sign of Tan Po Mei Cai Shortbread.
“I want three…no, six shortbread cookies! Mother-in-law, a little bit faster.”
Tang Ning asked so sweetly.
“Okay!”
As soon as the gray-haired old woman heard that Tangning, who was dressed as a young lady, talked to her politely and gently, she smiled blindly and began to make shortbread for her.
I didn’t really like these spring sandalwood, but I looked at my lady who was eagerly guarding the stall and the coveted spring cotton. They were inexplicably infected by them and looked forward to it.
So the three little girls just stood in front of the shortbread stall and watched Tan Po making her shortbread.
Helan Ruo, who had just arrived on Chunxiang Street after them, saw this scene. He was stunned for a moment, then he couldn’t help but laughed, covering his lips.
Leaning against one side of the wall, he just watched the three little girls staring at the mother-in-law who made the shortbread, watching them happily taking the shortbread wrapped in oiled paper by the smiling mother-in-law, and watching them As soon as he took the shortbread, he took a small bite regardless, and was scalded to stamp her feet on the spot. The round-faced little girl grinned in disregard of her image.
But just like that, the three of them didn’t let go of the shortbread in their hands.
This made the corners of Helan Ruo’s mouth even more smiling.
Helan Ruo’s current favorability rating: 12.
Who would have thought that as soon as the two people had bitten a few bites of shortbread, Chun Mian, who had excellent eyesight, immediately saw Qin Qianqian and Wei Jing coming from the corner of the street one after the other.
“Guliang, Guliang, it’s Wei persimmon, it’s persimmon…”
Because there was still food in his mouth, he patted Chun Mian on Tang Ning’s arm, hurriedly reminding him vaguely.
Hearing her voice, Tangning turned her head and saw Qin Qianqian and Wei Jing, she immediately pulled Chun Mian and Chun Tan and hid behind the wall only one wall away from Helan Ruo without thinking.
Chun Mian, who had finally swallowed the shortbread in his mouth, suddenly looked at Tang Ning with a puzzled expression.
“Girl, why should we hide…”
Before she finished her words, Tangning hurriedly stuffed the shortbread in her hand into Chun Tan’s hand, and at the same time directly raised her hand to cover Chun Mian’s mouth.
“Shhh, don’t talk, don’t ask Qianqian and Brother Jing to find us!”
Hearing what she said, Chunmian’s eyes were more puzzled.
But Chun Tan didn’t need Tangning to remind him, and didn’t even make a sound from beginning to end.
The three of them hid like this, letting Wei Jing and Qin Qianqian walk past them.
It was not until they walked over that Tangning released her hand covering Chunmian’s small mouth.
Chun Mian, who was finally able to speak, immediately asked all the questions he was full of.
“Why? Girl, you’re obviously Wei Shizi’s fiancée, aren’t you? Why do you avoid them? Why do you want to return your fiancé to Miss Qianqian? It was originally that she took the initiative to say that she would give up the marriage. Now What does it mean to be entangled with Wei Shizi again? She was so coincidentally going to listen to the Lili Lou with us, I said she was deliberately ill-intentioned! At the beginning, she took the initiative to let her marriage to you, and gained such a good reputation for being generous, modest and sensible. It also attracted the pity of the generals, his wife, and the young master. What is going on now, and I want Wei Shizi to take the initiative to abandon the girl, and must he marry her? You are responsible for all the bad things, the girl? You are obviously a good son, Chunmian has eyes, you can see everything…why should I wrong you so much?”
The more she said, the attitude of the little maid Chunmian gradually changed from doubt to anger, then to uncomfortable, even as she spoke, her eyes were a little red.
After hearing her words, Tangning’s heart suddenly flashed with surprise.
She knew that Chun Tan was very smart before, and many things were seen through without telling the truth, but she did not expect that she looked charming and pleasing, and only Chun Mian who was eating was also such a transparent person in her eyes.
She was able to spot all the calculations of Qin Qianqian, which Tangning had never expected.
Hearing this, Helan Ruo, who was only a wall away from them, finally figured out the identity of Tangning. No wonder she didn’t know him. It turns out that she was the true daughter of Qin who was recognized as the real daughter of the Zhenbei General Mansion in recent rumors in the capital. Tangning.
Just thinking of this, He Lan Ruo heard the gentle and firm voice again, “Little fool, you haven’t gotten your mind yet, don’t know what it’s like to like someone? Really pleased a person, as long as he is happy. , I am happy. I like brother Jing, he likes Qianqian, then I will help him, help him coax Qianqian back, even if…even if he really chooses to retire with me and marry Qianqian, I…will not regret…because I have gotten what I want most!”
While saying that Tangning stretched out his hand and stroked Chun’s soft little face, then the whole person was excited again, “Okay, okay, let’s not talk about it, today, do you have anything else you want to eat? I’ll buy everything for you, okay?”
“Well…”
Chun Mian sniffed, and snorted.
Helan Ruo, who was close to the wall, listened to the footsteps of the three people and gradually disappeared.
Suddenly he raised the wine jar in his hand and took a sip.
Does he, think like her, will live a little easier…
But what to do?
He is still regretting it, regretting it every day, regretting that he didn’t stop Mu Qing from entering the palace…
Ah.
Helan Ruo’s current favorability rating: 20.
Tangning, who had already walked some distance away, raised her eyebrows when she heard the system prompt.
The bait has been put down, and Helan Ruo, who is the same person who fell into the world with her, but who is not happy and uncomfortable without her open-mindedness, will take the initiative to come up to her sooner or later.
And then, it was her chance.